Rescued from Death in SiberiaAdamski, Michael MDA Video Productions.
Availability: http://mdavideo.net/ Description: Documentary about the little-known human tragedy of World War II, where several of the survivors tell us of their ordeal of
deportation from their homes in Eastern Poland to Siberia and their miraculous deliverance from certain death in the slave
labour camps of Stalin's Soviet Union. Length: 60 min.

Exiles Ogonowska-Coates, Halina. New Zealand Film Commission.
Availability: www.filmshop.co.nz
Description: Halina's mother, Irene, is
Polish - one of the 734 orphaned
children who come to New Zealand in 1944. She and other
Poles recall their
deportation to the Siberian labour camps, and then their
journey to freedom
in Persia (Iran) before finally arriving in New Zealand.
A compelling story
of courage and survival.

From Archipelago Gulag to America Starky, Eugene ELITA Artistic
Part 1 - "On the tenth of February"
Part 2 - "Candies from Stalin"
Part 3 - "Valley of Tears"
Availability:
Description: Polish, with English subtitles.
The epic story about the deportation of nearly two
million Poles to Siberia. Unique footage and documentary
from Siberia complete the dramatic stories of those who
survived the genocide and depicts their exodus from
Russia to America.

For Your Freedom and OursAdamski, Michael MDA Video Productions.
Availability: http://www.mdavideo.net Description: This documentary edited from archival,historical
footage presents the 50-year struggle of the Polish nation for its
independence, from the time of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia's
invasion of Poland in 1939 and the great dedication of the Polish
Goverment and the Polish Army in Exile for the Allied cause in WW2,
to the times of Solidarity and the regaining of freedom for Poland
in 1989. Length: 90 min.

The Betrayal of PolandAdamski, Michael MDA Video Productions.
Availability: http://www.mdavideo.com Description: The Second World War started in 1939 in defence of Poland. Poland's valiant stand against the onslaught of Nazi-Germany became the American President Roosevelt's war cry: "Poland the inspiration of the nations". However, five years later, the British Government's guaranties of Polish independence and Poland's heroic contributions and gigantic sacrifices in that war for the Allies were conveniently forgotten. In the Big Three conferences in Teheran and Yalta, the steadfast ally, without much concern, was handed over by Roosevelt and the British Prime Minister Churchill to the control of the communist tyrant Stalin. Length: 60 min.

Tales of the Persian Corridor,Burgener, Robert D
International
Connections.
Availability: www.iranian.com
Description:Documentary about American servicemen, Soviet
officers and civilians who played a crucial role in
supplying the USSR with badly needed military equipment
during World War II.

The Soviet StoryDocumentary film
Genre: History, politics
Director: Edvins Snore
Language: English
Length: 85 min.
Date of production: 2008
”The Soviet Story” was filmed over 2 years in Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, France, UK and Belgium. Material for the documentary was collected by the author, Edvins Snore, for more than 10 years. As a result, ”The Soviet Story” presents a truly unique insight into recent Soviet history, told by people, once Soviet citizens, who have first hand knowledge of it. http://www.sovietstory.com

KatynWajda Andrzej (21 September Poland)
Length: 122 min
Description: An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.
On 17 September 1939, a group of Polish officers and soldiers are imprisoned by the Soviet Army on the border of Poland. Anna and her daughter Nika travel from Krakow to meet her husband and officer Andrzej and they try to convince him to leave the soldiers and escape back home. However, Andrzej refuses to leave the troop and is deported to USSR. Later the Soviet tells that the Polish officers had been massacred by the Germans in the Katyn Forest with a shot on the back of the neck. However Anna retrieves Andrzej's diary and discloses that the soldiers had been actually murdered by the Soviet Army.
Availability: www.amazon.com

The Way Back (2010)Weir, PeterLength: 133 min
Description: Siberian gulag escapees walk 4000 miles overland to freedom in India.
In 1941, three men reach India from Tibet, having walked 4000 miles after escaping a Siberian gulag. The film tells their story and that of four others who escaped with them and a teenage girl who joins them in flight. The group's natural leader is Janusz, a Pole condemned by accusations secured by torturing his wife; he knows how to live in the wilds. They escape under cover of a snowstorm: a cynical American, a Russian thug, a comic accountant, a pastry chef who draws, a priest, and a Pole with night blindness. They face freezing nights, lack of food and water, mosquitoes, an endless desert, the Himalayas, and moral questions of when to leave someone behind.
Availability: www.amazon.com

Upon the death of his father, a son makes a startling discovery. A forgotten safe deposit box reveals his grandmother's memoirs, old photos of an army officer and a mysterious postcard that all link to a concealed crime: the Katyn Forest massacre. Weaving dramatic interviews with bold animation, The Officer's Wife probes the collision of truth, justice and memory in a shrouded family tragedy.

Synopsis
Before the start of World War II, Cecylia is happily married to a decorated Polish army officer and is an adoring mother of three young boys. As Nazi and Soviet tanks roll across Poland, her husband suddenly disappears and she is forcibly deported to a Siberian gulag. While imprisoned, she must battle the Soviets and the wild to keep her family alive. Risking a daring escape, Cecylia searches for her kidnapped husband - uncovering only betrayal, murder and a shocking Allied cover up.

After 70 years, the wounds of the Katyn massacre still bleed. The Soviets were never charged; and today, Russia is unwilling to atone for their horrific crimes. Cecylia's story is only one of almost 2 million Poles. Interviews with the last living survivors fuse with Cecylia's story to reveal not only the horrors but to also forge a lasting testament to the perseverance of the human spirit.

The Officer's Wife is ultimately a soaring celebration of humanity and its power to triumph over hatred.

Shot in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, England, Canada and the USA in HD.
80 minutes, English and Polish with English dubbing.

A famous documentary film by Khosrow Sinai "The Lost Requiem", telling the story of the Polish wartime exodus from the Soviet labour camps of Siberia to Iran. For many of the arriving refugees, Iran seemed like "paradise". In Farsi & English with English subtitles.

There are gaps in our history, lost episodes in our collective memory caused not by forgetfulness, but by the deliberate policy of governments and politicians. There are also courageous individuals who fight to bring such material back into the public light. Khosrow Sinai is one such individual.

“The Lost Requiem”, has never been publicly released. Sidelined and ignored for over a quarter of a century, its content has been deemed too politically sensitive to be shown. Now, at last, its official obscurity is coming to an end, and the film is being hailed as a priceless Iranian and Polish historical document.

“The Lost Requiem” tells the story of the war-time exodus to Iran of hundreds of thousands of Polish citizens released from the Soviet labour camps of Siberia. During the two months of April and August 1942, leaking ships crammed with emaciated, men, women and children began arriving at the Caspian port of Anzali (then called Pahlevi). Their condition was desperate. Within days of their arrival, thousands had died from malnutrition and typhus. Of those who survived, the men travelled onwards to join the armies of the Allied Forces in Syria and Lebanon. The remainder (mostly women and children) remained in Iranian refugee camps for up to three years, their lives totally transformed in the process.

Twenty five years after those dramatic events, Khosrow Sinai began to seek out those who had chosen to remain behind in Iran. Among them was a doctor who had fought at the battle of Monte Cassino, the widow of an Iranian policeman who had been a student in Warsaw before the war, and many many more. He travelled half way across the world to find some of the 700 Polish orphans sent to New Zealand from Iranian refugee camps. Their reminiscences, together with the many graves left behind in Tehran, Anzali and Ahvaz, bear testimony to a chapter of history almost erased from the public memory.

A Trip to Nowhere (2010)Also known as – ‘Podroz do Nikad’Hart, Shannon
Writer: Shannon Hart
Director: Shannon Hart
Length: 30 mins
Description: An animated true story of Polish children deported to Siberia by the Soviet Union during WW2.
Storyline: Much is known of the atrocities carried out by Hitler and the Nazis in Western Poland during WWII, but little has been written about the Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland. Under a secret agreement between Hitler and Stalin to conquer and divide Poland between them, the Germans attacked Poland on September 1st, 1939 from the west. The Soviets attacked Poland on September 17th, 1939, from the east. In just days, Poland was completely overrun. The Soviet arrests of thousands of Polish military personnel and professionals immediately began with only some of the men able to escape into hiding to help fight the Nazis and Soviets with the Polish Underground. When the Soviet secret police (the NKVD now the KGB) came to arrest the families of this identified group of Soviet "enemies", most often it was just innocent women and children that were taken into custody. "This is when my childhood ended"... Written by Grazyna Balut Ostrom

The Black Book of PolandPolish Ministry of Information ,1942. Printed
in English by G.P.Putnam’s Sons of New York.
615 pages of text, one map, and 112 photographic plates containing 187 images.
Library of Congress control number 42-020476 .
Also published in Copenhagen in Danish in 1945. Control Number 46-018471
For further information: www.polishroots.com/databases/black_book.htm

When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of
War, Exile, and Redemption. Adamczyk, Wesley, University of Chicago
Press, June 19, 2004
ISBN 0226004430
Foreword by Norman Davies
Hardcover: 288 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.97 x 9.36 x 6.36
Availability: www.amazon.comand at Walmart stores. ($25)
Often overlooked in accounts of World War II is the Soviet Union's
quiet yet brutal campaign against Polish citizens, a campaign that
included, we now know, war crimes for which the Soviet and Russian
governments only recently admitted culpability. Standing in the shadow
of the Holocaust, this episode of European history is often overlooked.
Wesley Adamczyk's gripping memoir, When God Looked the Other Way,
now gives voice to the hundreds of thousands of victims of Soviet
barbarism.
Sample chapters available at www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/004430.html

The Polish Deportees of World War II Recollections
of Removal to the Soviet Union and Dispersal Throughout the World Piotrowski, Tadeusz McFarland Publishing,
2004
ISBN 0-7864-1847-8
notes, bibliography, index, 256pp. illustrated case binding (7 x 10)
2004
Among the great tragedies that befell Poland during World War II was
the forced deportation of its citizens by the Soviet Union during
the first Soviet occupation of that country between 1939 and 1941.
This is the story of that brutal Soviet ethnic cleansing campaign
told in the words of some of the survivors. It is an unforgettable
human drama of martyrdom in the Gulag. The many non-European countries
that welcomed and extended aid to the exiles are also discussed.
Available at: www.amazon.comAvailable at www.polartcenter.com

From Siberia to
America: A Story of Survival and SuccessFrusztajer, Boruch
(Bronek) University of Scranton Press (February 1, 2008)
ISBN-10: 1589661559, ISBN-13: 978-1589661554

The General Langfitt
story - Polish refugees recount their experiences of exile, dispersal,
and resettlementThe General Langfitt story - Polish refugees recount their experiences of exile, dispersal, and resettlement

Man is Wolf to ManBardach, Janusz. University
of California Press.
ISBN 0520221524

The Persian Blanket - The Life of Janina MilekBorn in Poland in 1921 Janina Milek was transported with her family to Siberia in the freezing winter of 1940. She worked hard in the labour camps for nearly two years until the changing fortunes of the war offered relative freedom. There followed eight years as a refugee, in camps in Uzbekistan, Persia, Northern Rhodesia and Tanganyika. At every stage of the journey members of her family fell away, perished, were left behind, took other roads. In 1950 Janina arrived in Western Australia, alone. When Janina entered Tim Chappell’s young life they formed an instant bond. Tim has interwoven Janina’s extraordinary story with poignant, often amusing, cameos of the Janine he knew as he was growing up. This is a true story of courage and determination, of the will to survive and the value of freedom.

Seeds in the Storm (NZ) In August 1939 Stanislaw Dabrowski was a 19 year old accounting student working part time in his family bakery business in Lwów, Poland. Within a few weeks the Germans had occupied half of Poland and the Soviet Union invaded the rest, including Lwów. The family discovered the reality of life in comrade Stalin's empire: destitution, arrest, imprisonment, beatings, show trials on false charges, deportation to slave labour camps and executions.

After enduring months of slave labour in the gold mines of Kolyma in Siberia, Stanislaw was among the small percentage to survive: in 1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union and Polish prisoners were released to join a Polish army to fight the Germans. He fought in the battle of Monte Cassino in Italy after which he met his wife, a veteran of the Warsaw uprising.

Following the end of the war they moved to Britain and from there they migrated to New Zealand to join other family members who had been sent out in 1944.

Initially, Stanislaw worked in a car assembly factory in Petone, but upon deciding to resume accounting studies, got a job in the Department of Industries and Commerce in Wellington, the boss of which was the notorious Moscow-aligned William Sutch. After years of no promotion, Stanislaw decided to change employers and went to the Totalisator Agency Board or TAB, eventually working his way to the top position of General Manager.

The story of the Dabrowski family, scattered by the storm of war, eventually establishing new roots on the other side of the world, is both fascinating and inspiring.

Drawings from the GulagFeaturing over 130 drawings and texts by Danzig Baldaev – author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I, II, III – this book describes the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918.

Baldaev's work as a prison guard allowed him to travel across the former USSR where he witnessed scenes of everyday life in the Gulag first-hand, chronicling this previously closed world from both sides of the wire. The drawings, made during the Communist period, form a devastating document, a haunting echo of the works of Varlam Shalamov and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.

With every vignette, Baldaev brings his characters to vivid life:
from the lowest zek (inmate) to the most violent tattooed vor (thief), the practises and inhabitants of the Gulag system are revealed in incredible and shocking detail. He documents the contempt shown by the authorities to those imprisoned, and the transformation of these citizens into survivors or victims. This graphic depiction exposes the systematic methods of torture and mass murder of millions undertaken by the administration, as well as the atrocities committed by criminals on their fellow inmates.

Konwoj strzela
bez uprzedzenia, Polski w wiezieniach i lagrach sowieckich 1944- 1956Dziewulska -Losiowa,
Aniela. Towarzstwo
Literackie imienia Adama Mickiewicza, Oddzial Bialostocki, Bialystok
1994
ISSN 0867-7875, ISBN 83- 86188-03-0
Description: This book includes detailed lists of 1000 women
arrested by the NKWD or serving their sentences from July
1944 to December 1955 and their stories. It is a very good
source of information. The author of the book was a liaison
officer of AK (Armia Krajowa), region Wilno, arrested in
October 1944 and sentenced for 10 years. (submitted by
Elzbieta Gurtler-Krawczynska)

Gdyby nie Opatrzność BożaGrabski O. Ryszard Czesław
Written by a priest O. Ryszard Czesław Grabski who was first imprisoned in a work camp and then after joining Polish Army traveled back to Archangielsk to help people out of gulags.

Paying Guest in SiberiaHadow, M.
London, Maidstone, 1978, 1959.
ISBN 0906264014 pbk. LC Catalog # LC
810 D5
Availability: Publishers address, 24 Week Street, Maidstone,
Kent, UK Maria Hadow was a
young married woman in September 1939. Her husband, an army officer,
was taken prisoner by the Soviets and later shot. She describes her
forced settlement with her mother and their efforts after the 'amnesty'
to find the Polish forces. They travelled by rail --two weeks of 'a
nightmare journey' - and in late August or September of 1942 reached
Ashkhabad, the capital of Turkmenistan, where they found the Polish
Army. By then the last trains carrying soldiers and
civilians heading to board ships at the Caspian port of Krasnovodsk had
left. She left Ashkhabad on the last convoy to
take Poles out that way over the mountains to Meshed in Persia
(Iran).
She wound up marrying the British vice-consul who was posted in Meshed
in 1942. She never gives his name, nor does she say where she lived in
Poland. But, being part of the Soviets forced resettlement, we can
assume her home was in Eastern Poland.

The Endless Steppe: a
girl in exile. Hautzig, E.
New York, Scholastic Book Services, 1968, 1970
Description: A book aimed at children.

Lost Between Worlds: A World War II Journey of SurvivalLost Between Worlds is based on a journal written between 1940 and 1945 when Edward H Herzbaum was in his twenties. It is a first-hand account of his horrendous wartime experiences, both physical and psychological, published for the first time: the journal had been lying in a suitcase for 65 years until it was discovered and translated.

The book spans a period of history from the German invasion of Poland in 1939 to the end of the Italian Campaign in 1945. It recounts how Edward was arrested and interned by the Germans but escaped. He travelled to eastern Poland to avoid being recaptured, but there he was arrested by the Russians and deported to a Gulag, where he suffered starvation, brutality and horrific working and living conditions. After Germany’s attack on Russia, Edward and the other Polish prisoners were amnestied and released to join a newly-formed Polish army, under British command. They travelled through Middle Asia, Iraq, Iran, British Palestine and Egypt, eventually fighting in the Italian Campaign. Edward writes at times with humour and irony and at other times with desperation, about his arduous journey and the awful psychological after-effects of the experiences which he and the other Poles had endured. The loss of family, friends and country and the feelings of loneliness at finding themselves completely displaced from their ‘old world’, with no knowledge of what their ‘new world’ might look like, even if they survived the war. This book will appeal to fans of history and those interested in the Second World War.

Stolen Childhood--A
Saga of Polish War ChildrenKrolikowski,Lucjan.
Lincoln.iUniverse, 2001.
ISBN 0595168639Availability:www.iUniverse.com,
62205 16th Street, Suite 200,
Lincoln, NE 68512 tel: 1-877-823-9235. email:
custservice@iuniverse.com
Description: Stolen Childhood is the story of what happened to some
380,000 Polish children who, with their families, were rounded up by
Stalin's orders in 1939 and deported into Asiatic Russia. Lucjan
Krolikowski, a young seminarian also deported there, shared and
witnessed the suffering of his fellow Poles.
Freed by an "amnesty," he joined the Polish Army, and when it moved to
the Middle East, Lucjan resumed his theology studies, pronounced his
vows, and became a chaplain to a Polish military hospital in Egypt.
Reassigned to refugee camps in East Africa, Fr. Lucjan and the
wandering Polish children met again in 1947; a meeting that began a
long and loving relationship.
In 1949 when the Warsaw Communists claimed guardianship of the Polish
orphans in Africa and demanded their repatriation, Fr. Lucjan was
forced into a world of international intrigue. Called by the Communists
"a kidnapper on an international scale," to his orphans, he was the
good shepherd who led them to Canada, where he helped his charges
overcome the theft of their childhood and become secure adults in a new
world. Stolen Childhood is the book of memories he wrote for them, and
a cautionary history for people of good will.

Dying, We LiveKulski, Julian
Eugeniusz. Holt Reinhart and Winston, New York, 1979. Description: The personal
chronicle of a young freedom fighter in Warsaw (1939-45). He was the
son of the Catholic Mayor of Warsaw. Just 10 when the country was
invaded, he joined the Freedom Fighters at 12, was arrested by the
Gestapo, selected to go to Aushwitz and then released. He fought in the
1944 uprising and after surrender was shipped to a POW camp in Germany.
He was liberated by the Americans in 1945.Through his father, he met
and was present for many of the meeetings with other Polish leaders. -
Review by Sherry Roan

Goodbye,
Tomorrow. Lachocki, Gryzelda. Availability:
tel: 386-423-8639, email: Ab4uz@aol.com,
or direct address: Gryzelda Niziol Lachocki, 2014 Pine Tree Drive,
Edgewater, FL 32141.
ISBN 1556181817 (alk.
paper), ISBN 1556181833 (pbk). LC
Catalog #D810 D5
Description: A beautifully written book that takes you from her village
on the Polesie to Archangielsk, then on to Kazakstan, Iran, Lebanon,
and her final settlement in the US. Once I started reading, I couldn't
putthe book down, and just read on through the night until I'd finished
it. Review by Halina Szulakowska

For two and a half
years underand with the SovietsLantner, Henry. New York, Vantage Press, 1992.
ISBN 0533101913
Availability: Out of Print

The Long BridgeThis book is about the events, most of them quite unpredictable, in my life; and my observations and memories from the day of the unforgettable Autumn in 1939, the day Poland was invaded by Germany, till my arrival in London in the spring of 1957.

These include two years deportation to Kazakhstan (as a 'particularly dangerous social element') to do forced labour, ten years as a political prisoner in the Soviet labour camps, and four years 'eternal exile' in Siberia.

Review by Irene Tomaszewski - The Long Bridge is a wonderful book, much more than another retelling of the horrors of the gulag. It is, of course, a historical document, but it is also a psychological study, a development of a philosophy, and an inspiration. I recommend it highly.

Remember: Helen's storyOancia, Sandra.Calgary,
Detselig Enterprises Ltd., 1997.
ISBN 1550591452. LC Catalog #D810 D5 Availability website: http://www.grahamsanders.com/HelensStory.htmDescription:
Sixteen-year-old Helen was arrested by Russian soldiers as
she walked to school in her native Poland during World War II. The
journey took her to a labor camp in Siberia, an orphanage in India, a
refugee camp in England, and finally to Assiniboia, Saskatchewan.

Krystyna's StoryOgonowska-Coates,
Halina. Shoal Bay Press.
ISBN 0908704852.
Availability: website: www.pacificislandbooks.com/nzhistbiog.htm Description: "As a child I
loved my mother but she seemed different from other mothers. She didn't
know how old she was. She couldn't remember where she was born. I
wondered what had happened to her that she could have forgotten such
important things. It had something to do with the Second World War."Krystyna is one of 732 'Polish
children' who survived forced deportation to the Soviet Union and was
given a home in New Zealand in 1944. Her remarkable story, a composite
portrait drawn from interviews with Polish survivors, begins in a
peaceful Polish village and follows her family's harrowing journey to a
labor camp in Siberia, the terrible flight to freedom, and Krystyna's
lonely voyage to a safe refuge in New Zealand.This is a beautifully evoked
account of a child's journey through Europe at war, and a young woman's
bewildering encounter with rural New Zealand.Halina Ogonowska-Coates is an
oral historian, writer and filmmaker of Polish descent. In Krystyna's
Story she has recorded the experiences of many Poles who came to New
Zealand after the Second World War. She has also presented their story
in a television film, Exiles - The Story
of a Polish Journey

Pamiec
Golgoty Wschodu (Golgotha of the East)Fr. Peszkowski,
Zdzislaw J. Warsaw, Soli Deo, 2000.
ISBN 83-88202-01-4
Availability: Wydawnictwo im. Stefana Kardynala Wyszynskiego "Soli
Deo", ul. Dziekania 1, 00-279 Warszawa, Poland
Description: Father Peszkowski is a survivor of the Kozielsk Camp. It
was from that camp that Polish officers were transported to their place
of execution in Katyn. His book deals with the whole subject of the
Russian Invasion of Poland and Crimes committed by the Soviet Union
upon the Polish Nation. It contains some interesting documents and
photographs. Amongst others, there is a very good picture of the Katyn
Monument erected in the year 2000 in Baltimore, USA. - Review by
Eugeniusz Krajewski

Genocide and Rescue in
Wolyn: Recollections of the Ukrainian Nationalist Ethnic Cleansing
Campaign Against the Poles During World War IIPiotrowski, Tadeusz.
(Editor) McFarland & Company, April, 2000.
ISBN: 0786407735After the 1939
Soviet and 1941 Nazi invasions, the people of Southeast Poland
underwent a third and even more terrible ordeal when they were
subjected to mass genocide by the Ukrainian Nationalists. Tens of
thousands of Poles were tortured and murdered, not by foreign invaders,
but by their fellow citizens, who sometimes turned out ot be their
neighbors, relatives, and former friends. Other Ukrainians took
terrible risks to protect Poles from the slaughter, and often paid for
their compassion with their lives. The children who survived them
vividly remember these atrocities and now, many decades later, tell
their tragic tales. These accounts, never before published in English,
describe the brutal murders these children witnessed, their own
miraculous survival, and the heroic rescues that saved them.
Demographic and other statistical information on the area is provided.
Also included are appendices listing the Ukrainian victims and
providing additional stories from other provinces, as well as ample
Ukrainian, Polish, Soviet, German, and Jewish documentation and a
comprehensive chronology. An index and bibliography are also included.

Vengeance of the
Swallows: Memoir of a Polish Family's Ordeal Under Soviet Aggression,
Ukrainian Ethnic Cleansing and Nazi Enslavement, and Their Emigration
to AmericaPiotrowski, Tadeusz.
McFarland & Company
ISBN: 0786400013

The Long WalkRawicz, Slawomir. New York, Lyons Press, 1956.
ISBN 1558216847 (pbk), ISBN 1558216340
(cloth). LC Catalog #D805 S65
Contains one map with his journey from Moscow toSiberia then via the
Himalayas out to Pakistan. A story of a man that was arrested and sent
to the Gulags to die, but escaped to tell his story.Gold from TearsRoman, Dorothy. Upper Fenntree, Vic., Rex Thompson and Family
Publ., Ltd., 1993.
ISBN 0646189506

From Russian Gulag to
Alberta PrairiesRomanko, Maria Alina,
Availability:online book

W Sowieckim
Osaczeniu (In Soviet Surroundings)Siemaszko, Zbigniew S.London, Polska
Fundacja Kulturalna, 1991.
Availability: From author - 64, Twyford Avenue, London W3 9QB, Tel:
(020) 8992 8489
Description: Anybody wanting to find out more about the deportations to
Siberia, about the conditions facing the deportees, and about the
1939-1943 situation in the Kresy area occupied by the Russians, should
read this book. The book is in Polish. For further detaisl, you can
write to the author.-
Review by Romuald Lipinski

AnathemaSierpinska, Zofia.Privately
Published. Book One (248 pages); Book Two (183 pages)
Translation of Anatema; refugee camps in India.

This book is a collection of individual stories written by survivors of the Polish genocide during the Second World War. It has been seventy years since as many as 2 million Poles were deported against their will to some of the most inhospitable regions in the world: Siberia, Kazakhstan, and parts of Soviet Asia. More than one million Poles died a slow death in the gulags of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin or on their long and desperate journeys to and from the camps.

While the Soviets used mass shootings, overwork and starvation, the Nazi Germans used assembly-style gassing and cremation -- methods that received far greater attention in the history books.

This book is dedicated to the hundreds of thousands who perished and to those who survived to give testimony to the truth.

The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western BorderlandsAlexander Statiev, C. Published by University of Waterloo, Ontario
ISBN-13: 9780521768337

The Soviet Counterinsurgency in the Western Borderlands investigates the Soviet response to nationalist insurgencies that occurred between 1944 and 1953 in the regions the Soviet Union annexed after the Nazi-Soviet pact: Eastern Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Based on new archival data, Alexander Statiev presents the first comprehensive study of Soviet counterinsurgency that ties together the security tools and populist policies intended to attract the local populations. The book traces the origins of the Soviet pacification doctrine and then presents a comparative analysis of the rural societies in Eastern Poland and the Baltic States on the eve of the Soviet invasion. This analysis is followed by a description of the anti-communist resistance movements. Subsequently, the author shows how ideology affected the Soviet pacification doctrine and examines the major means to enforce the doctrine: agrarian reforms, deportations, amnesties, informant networks, covert operations, and local militias. The book also demonstrates how the Soviet atheist regime used the church in its struggle against guerrillas and explains why this regime could not curb the random violence of its police. The final chapter discusses the Soviet experience in the global context.

Polish Orphans of Tengeru: The Dramatic Story of Their Long Journey to Canada 1941-49Taylor, Lynne. Published 2009 Dunburn Press
ISBN: 978-1554880041

The Gehenna of Polish
children in the USSRSzkoda, E. London, CY, 1993.
Availability: POSK Bookshop, London
Description: Gives a detailed account of the state of Polish orphans in
the Middle East after the 'Amnesty' and the schools and other
facilities that were established by the Polish authorities to
rehabilitate and educate them after their ordeal in the Soviet Union.
There are also many good photographs from the period. - Review by
George Neisser

World War II through
Polish Eyes - In Nazi-Soviet GripSzonert-Binienda,
Maria. East European Monographs, 2002.
ISBN: 0-88033-502-5

The Ice Road: An Epic
Journey From Stalinist Labour Camps to FreedomWaydenfeld, Stefan. Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh. March 22,
1999.
Availability: Paperback may be ordered directly from the publisher on a
print-on-demand basis through most book shops.
Description: It is very
well written, easy to read and brings to life many of the stories we
have all heard from our families
about the deportations. It's start is a little different from a lot of
our
stories as Stefan originates from Otwock, 30 km south of Warsaw. It is
his story of how he and his
parents ended up in Pinsk and unable to return to their home, they were
deported as
undesirables by the Soviets. A lot of things that happened to them
mirrors the tragedies of
many other deportees. However, probably because of his father's
profession, and the fact that they managed to have money for bribing,
one or two of their
journeys were more comfortable than the cattle trucks they otherwise
found themselves on.
Stefan's destination near Kotlas and life on the settlement at Kvasha
sounds very similar to
the life my uncle described, and I feel Stefan has made it
even easier for me
to picture the hardships they endured. His journey to freedom is
certainly a 'mystery tour' where he
and his parents had to be very resourceful to survive the many dilemmas
they met on their
long journey to Pahlavi.- Review
by Dianne
Custance

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - September 22, 2009) - "Waiting To Be Heard (The Polish Christian Experience Under Nazi and Stalinist Oppression 1939-1955)" deals with the disruption caused by the war that tore apart Poland in 1939. With Hitler's vow to annihilate an eastern neighbor "for German expansion," followed immediately by Stalin's thrust westward and the mass deportation to Siberia of whole societies, thus causing the death of millions, those who survived could not, or would not, speak of their ordeal.

This book gives voice to those who, in fear of their lives or in anticipation of an eventual and triumphant return, found themselves exiled across the world. Dr. Bogusia Wojciechowska, the daughter of a couple that found refuge in a camp outside Oxford, England, and now Dean at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, MA, had an incomplete picture of her family's plight until she chanced upon some letters written by her grandfather. Her training as a historian gave her the confidence and the methodology to conduct over one hundred interviews with a rapidly decreasing population that had first-hand experience of both Nazi and Stalinist oppression. In the majority of cases it was the first time this diaspora had spoken at length about their suffering and their shattered dream of freedom for their homeland.

Presented as a series of vignettes, "Waiting to Be Heard" is a chronology punctuated by the poetry of a subsequent generation that includes Martin Stepek, John Guzlowski, and Hania Kaczanowska, each of whom pay respectful and heart-rending homage to the dignity of their parents. This 400-page book contains many photographs and artifacts, and has a foreword by Ryszard Kaczorowski, former president of the Polish Government-in-Exile in London who, in 1990, was finally able to hand over the safeguarded State Insignia to the newly and democratically-elected president, Lech Walesa, in Warszawa.

Published in October by AuthorHouse, "Waiting To Be Heard" is printed to order, so wait times may vary. Please order through Amazon or Barnes & Noble websites, or through your local bookstore. Meanwhile, one can get a feel for the content by visiting www.PolishDiaspora.net.

Joe's War: My Father
DecodedKobak, Annette and
Knopf, Alfred A. Knopf Publishing, March 2004
ISBN: 0375411844
Part biography, part memoir,
part history -- the story of her father's
journey beginning in
Lwow, then eastern Poland in 1939, then south and west and eventually
joining Polish Army units in France that were evacuated to Britain.

Providence Watching:
Memories of Polish War Combatants from the Second World WarCollected by Patalas,
Kazimierz translated by Izydorczyk, Zbigniew. University of
Manitoba Press, November, 2003
Paper 0-88755-674-4
After the war, Canada accepted over 4000 Polish immigrant soldiers and
their families who did not want to return to a communist regime in
their country. This book is a moving oral history of the experiences of
forty-five individuals during that transition period between the
outbreak of war and their eventual relocation in Canada.

Book is available from him at the price £5.00 + postage
His address MR.R.Wernik,
19,Atherton Heights,Wembley,London,HAO 1XD.

Polish SpiritWojcik, Wladek,
Smoczna Jama Press, 1996
ISBN: 095447760XAvailable at:www.grahamsanders.com/polishspirithome.htm In September 1939, a young
Polish Airman was captured by Soviet Troops whilst his unit weas on the
run from the invading Germans. The Soviets took him first into the
Ukraine and subsequently into the Gulag camps of the Arctic. He
escaped, was recaptured, and eventually amnestied when Stalin
eventually worked out he'd been on the wrong side all along.
Wojcik came out of the Soviet Union via Turkestan and across the
Caspian Sea into Persia. Eventually, after a long journey via India and
South Africa, he ended up serving in the Polish Air Force in England,
where he was to spend the rest of his life, since returning to a
Communist Poland was not an option for him.
Avaialble also: http://www.keapublishing.com/history.php

"With Great Sacrifice
and Bravery": The Career of Polish Ace Waclaw Lapkowski, 1939-41Knoblock, Glenn,
A Merriam Press Original Publication, Monograph 86
Illustrated with Official RAF Combat ReportsSee:www.merriam-press.com/withgreatsacrificeandbravery.aspxIt is the author's hope that, in
some small way, this book will help preserve the memory of a little
known pilot who fought, not only for his own country, but also for
France and England during the early, dark days of World War II. While
Waclaw Lapkowski was an experienced pilot who became one of Poland's
aces during the war, his early demise, like that of so many others, has
relegated his achievements to the back pages of history, making them
nearly forgotten. However, in referring to pilots such as Lapkowski,
the great British ace Robert Stanford-Tuck cites the many men "who were
credited with six, seven, or eight victories", pilots that "formed the
bulk and guts of our fighter force."

Freely I Served Major General Stanislaw
Sosabowski, Battery Press, 1982
ISBN: 0898390613
An account of his escape from his arrest in WWII Poland, his escape via
Italy to be in England and lead the Polish Parachute Division. A 203
page hard cover book with
pictures and maps.Available at:www.batterypresss.com

W cieniu KatyniaSwianiewicz, Stanisław

He was one of the officers who survived Katyn thanks to being taken from Kozielsk and brought to Moscow to a prison as he was accused of being a spy (he wrote a book about Soviet Economy while he worked at the university in Lwow). He then joined Polish Army and worked for the Embassy in Kujbyszew. The book was published by Instytut Literacki in Paris in 1976.

Przezylem,
Pamietam, Swiadcze (I survived, I remember, I witness)Zimmermann, Henryk Zvi
The story of Zimmermann's life, with
special attention to the war
years when he fought as a member of the Jewish Armed
Combatant's
Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojownicza) in Krakow, and also with
the Polish underground.

Essence Tomaszyk, Krystine,
Dunmore Press, 2004
ISBN 0-86469-475-X, 135x210mm, 235pp,
Availability: This book can be ordered from:
Dunmore Press, PO Box 5115, Palmerston North, NZ.
ph: 05 358 7169, fax: 06 357 9242
Email:books@dunmore.co.nz
In this Memoir, Krystine Tomaszyk reflects on her life, the earliest
memories of which take place as her world, and that of all around her,
shatters with the invasion of Poland by the German and then the Soviet
army and her deportation to Siberia. This poignant narrative is, at the
same time, both a dramatic physical journey, by a very long route to
New Zealand, and an exploration of the mind of a child, coping with and
making meaning of the events she is caught up in. Essence is a
thoughtful exploration of being and becoming, an experience the reader
can participate in and be challenged by. Essence is a mosaic of
emotional colours, pieced together with honesty and artistry.

New Zealand's First
Refugees: Pahiatua's Polish ChildrenPolish Children's
Reunion Committee, New Zealand, 2004
Available through: polishchildren@paradise.net.nz
(NZ$40 plus pp)
Contributors: former children, their children, New Zealanders, who were
in some way associated with them.
Photographs, maps, list of names, material taken from archives, 2003
Survey of Polish Refugee Children.
100 personal stories of the former refugees, their guardians, the first
and second-generations, and New Zealanders who had contact with them in
those early years. 416 pages, with 48-page glossy photo section,
history, background, facts, statistics and a complete list of all the
refugees' names. Not only will it be useful for historians, educators
and sociologists as a document to enrich New Zealand's historical
heritage, but a fascinating and poignant personal history told by the
former refugees, which read like non-fiction short stories.

Noble Flight - Escape
and Survival During World War IIGniewosz, Teresa
Bisping with Christopher Gniewosz. Chrisco Trading,
Publication Division
ISBN 0-9711628-2-4
Available at: www.nobleyouth.com
Available through CHRISCO Publications, PO Box 25190, Portland, OR
97298, Fax: 503-297-1208
Grace, Exuberance, And Optimism are tested by the horrors of World War
II as youthful Terenia with her family are forced to abandon their
Polish estate and flee through Europe. Along the way they endure
uncertainty, loss, and hope. They are helped--or hindered--by local
peasants, the elite of nobility, royalty, and all echelons of the
Church. Surrounded by global forces exposing the depths of inhumanity,
each family member's strengths and frailties are ruthlessly exposed. As
they seek refuge amidst shifting battle lines and national boundaries,
Terenia's personal journey leads her to womanhood and a life beyond.

Noble Youth -
Adventures of Fourteen Siblings Growing Up on a Polish Estate 1919-1939Gniewosz, Teresa
Bisping with Christopher Gniewosz. Chrisco Trading,
Publication Division (2001)
ISBN 0971162867
Available at: www.nobleyouth.com
Cozy up to a tale of family mischief and adventure when times were good
in free and affluent Poland. High spirited Terenia explores her
interaction with manor house staff, cooks, nannies, governesses,
foremen, teamsters, dairymen, foresters, a fish keeper, gardener,
gatekeeper and numerous regular and seasonal helpers, field hands and
exciting visitors to the estate. Each season offered unique tasks and
opportunities on the self-sufficient noble estate. Laugh and cry with
Terenia in her experiences with family, at school and as she broke out
to explore the world.

Born and raised under
a straw roof: A true legacy of the human spirit.Drzewiecki, Mary Anna.
ISBN 0968745806

Worlds ApartPavlovich, Henry
ISBN 978-1-84728-226-2www.henrypavlovich.comWorlds Apart is a novel about
survival and a search for identity
through memory. It looks at the choices forced on us and those we avoid
making. It begins and ends with a fairy story told to the young David
Wilenski by his mother in a refugee camp in England. The adult David
looks back at life in that camp, realising its taboos hide a story and
pose a question over identities and the past. The protagonists are his
parents: Jadwiga, transported to the Soviet Gulag under Stalin, and
Wladek, taken as a slave labourer to Hitler’s Reich. Dogged
by guilt, through archives and accounts prised from his reluctant
parents, David reassembles the shattered smithereens of their lives. A
remarkable picture emerges of ordinary people struggling through war,
love, and growing up, one in the “Jerusalem of the
North” – riven by antagonistic nations –
the other on an idyllic rural stage that is a military colony. These
are the borderlands of 20th century Eastern Europe and a refugee camp
in the borderlands of the UK.

Polacy w Indiach 1942-1948 w świetle dokumentow i wspomnienKolo Polakow z Indii, Association of Poles
in India 1942-1948, London 2000
ISBN: 0953892808.
Availability: order from the Polonia Bookstore Inc, http://www.polonia.com
The Association has been working on an English language translation
of the work, and in a recent issue of their semi-annual bulletin,
they are asking their membership to let their secretary know who
wants copies and how many. This is not a request for orders or for
prepayment. They are trying to get an idea of how many copies to
print. For those interested, please contact Mrs. W. Kleszko, Flat
18, Cleverly Estate, Wormholt Rd, LONDON W12 0LX, TEL/FAX 020 8749
6190. .

An army in exile, the story of the Second Polish
CorpsAnders, Wladyslaw. Forward by Viscount
Alexander. Introduction by Harold Macmillan). London, MacMillan,
1949. Reprint Edition: Nashville, Tenn., Battery Press, 1981. ISBN 0-89-8390-045-5 Reprinted and available at http://www.batterypress.comThis book describes the political conflicts which
marked the birth of the unit in Russian POW camps in 1942, its training
in Iraq under British supervision and the heavy combat operations
in Italy from the battle of Monte Cassino to victory at the River
PO. Also covered is the monumental task of the Polish government in
exile to find new homes for its men after the Russian occupation of
their homeland.

Defeat in Victory (Polish ambassador to the
US during WW2 gives eyewitness account)Ciechanowski, Jan. Doubleday, 1947
Description: Polish Ambassodor to the United States during the war
years. Conversations with Roosevelt are taken from personal notes.
"It is a personal record of my observations and opinions of events...
and trends of policy as I saw them developing on the Washington scene
during the four and one half years of my last diplomatic mission."
- Review by Sherry Roan

Poland's first 100,000; story of the rebirth
of the Polish army, navy and air force after the September campaignKleczkowski, S. London, New York, Hutchinson
& Co., Ltd., 1945.
LC Catalog # D765 .K57 1945

Polish Ministry of Information. Polish Government
in Exile, London. Polish troops in Norway, a photographic record of
the campaign at NarvikLondon, Polish Ministry of Information, 1943 LC
Catalog # D765

Wykaz
Poleglych i Zmarlych Zolnierzy Polskich Sil Zbrojnych na Obczyznie
w latach 1939-1946
(List of Killed and Otherwise Deceased Soldiers of the Polish Armed
Forces in Exile 1939-46)London: Instytut Historyczny im. Gen. Sikorskiego,
1952. 370 p. maps.
OIN Call Number: T 401
UIUC Call Number: Main Stacks 940.5467438 W975
The list contains 15056 names of soldiers of the Polskie Sily Zbrojne
na Obczyznie who fell in combat or died in the years 1939 to September
8, 1946. The work is divided into 5 main parts: Army, Navy, Air Force,
Women in the military, military youth organizations (Junacy). The
first part is further subdivided by larger units, military campaigns,
territory. Within each division the organization is alphabetical.
An addendum contains 727 names of soldiers, who after 1939 were arrested
by the Soviets and died on Polish territory, or were imprisoned in
the Soviet Union. The entries contain: name, military rank, date and
place of birth, date and place of death, information regarding the
grave.

Wykaz
Cmentarzy I Zmarlych Zolnierzy, Junakow Armii Polskiej w ZSRR I Iranie
w Latach 1941-42.Zaron Piotr, Wydawnictwo Adam Marszalek,
Torun
Llists all the cemetaries and all the soldiers who died after enlisting
in the newly formed Polish Army. There are approximately 35 cemeteries
listed, where 3385 soldiers are buried.

In Their Country's Service - Women Soldiers
of the 2nd Polish Corps 1941-1946 - English version
Published by the 'Headquarters of the Polish Womens
Auxilliary Corps 2nd Polish Corps'.
Description : for an electronic copy of
book go to http://nemesis.mcc.ac.uk/Poland/Women-Soldiers (courtesy of George Neisser)

Monte Cassino: The Story of the Most Controversial
Battle of World War IIHapgood, David and Richardson, David, DaCapo
Press, 2002
ISBN: 0306811219
In trade paperback for the first time, the gripping story of one of
the greatest Allied blunders--the bombing and destruction of an ancient
Italian abbey.
Available athttp://www.amazon.com

Poland 1939 The birth of BlitzkriegZaloga, Steven J. illustrated by Howard Gerrard, Osprey Publishing Company, 2002
ISBN: 1841764086
This 96 page book shows vivid B/W pictures and maps of the assault
on Poland by the German forces and some about the Russians invasion.

The Polish Army 1939-45 Zaloga, Steven J.,Osprey
Publishing Company, 1982
ISBN: 0850454174
This 48 page extremely well illustrated book accounts the brave fight
of the Polish men who fought for their and our lives. Lots of quality
WWII B&W picture.

Secret ArmyBor-Komorowski,Battery
Press, 1984
ISBN: 0898390826
A hard cover 407 page detailing the Polish Home Army resistance throughout
the WWII occupation. Includes pictures and maps.
Available athttp://www.batterypress.com

Enigma- How the Poles Broke the Nazi Code Kozaczuk, Wladislaw & Straszak, Jerzy ,Battery Press, 1984
16 page b/w photo insert. (200 pages, Hardcover, 5?" x 8?")....$22.50
Poland did what no other county had done - and what the Germans considered
impossible. They deserve thanks for the great Polish solution that
saved so many lives and did so much good for the world." - David
Kahn, author of Seizing the Enigma. In 1933, three Polish mathematicians
led by Marian Rejewski succeeded in breaking the German Enigma cipher,
which the Germans considered unbreakable. 1939, just before the outbreak
of the war, the Poles shared their knowledge with French and British
intelligence services. This led to the powerful British decoding operation
at Bletchley Park, which supplied vital intelligence known as Ultra
to the Allied forces. Yet, only recently have the Polish code breakers
received international recognition. This text offers a concise, up-to-date
history of the Enigma decryption in Poland and the use of this achievement
in Poland and England.
Available at www.polartcenter.com

The Katyn Wood Murders Mackiewicz, Joseph published by the World
Affairs Book Club, 14 Old Queen Street, London, S.W.1. First Edition
edition (January 1, 1951)
ASIN: B0007IU4V0
Possibly available at www.amazon.com

In the Shadow of Katyn Swianiewicz, S, Dr. translated from the
Polish.
A film, The Last Witness, has been made based on this book. It's availability
is unknown.
Film press release information: The
Last Witness
Book is available at: www.bunkertobunkerbooks.com

General Wladyslaw Anders' Polish Second
Corps as a source of international misunderstandingDepartment of State (US). Office of Research Intelligence
R&A;;3522, 1 1946 (Microfilm).
Availability: Niedersachsiche Staats-und Univ

Review: In his beautifully crafted book "The
Brief Sun" Robert Ambros tells the story of 16 year old Andrzej
and his companions in a Northern Siberian labor camp in 1941, and
beyond. Mr. Ambros has the unique gift of describing his characters
fully formed. The reader can almost see them, touch them, and understand
the motives for their actions, as well as get into their minds.
That is the mark of a true story teller!

In spite of the pathos of the era, his matter-of-fact telling of
the story makes it an easy to read book. His descriptions of fear,
cold, hunger, loss, guilt and immense sorrow are offset by tales
of the closest cameraderie, the desolation and the beauty of the
various landscapes Andrzej encounters, and the hunger for, and finding
of first love.

This story, told with passion, is rich in historical detail, and
should become required reading in every history class.
I highly recommend it to anyone, today and in the future!
Reviewed by Ronee Henson

Stefania's Dancing Slippers (Recommended for Primary School Age
Children) Beck, Jennifer. Scholastic Press
ISBN: 9781869438111 (hbk.), 9781869438258 (pbk.)
Available at: www.timeout.co.nz , http://childrensbookshop.netstep.co.nz , www.booktopia.com.au
Five-year-old Stefania loves to dance in her special pair of dancing
slippers. But then war comes to Poland, her father goes away to
fight, and Stefania and her mother are sent to a work camp in Siberia.
When they are freed, Stefania is parted from her mother and sent
to the other side of the world. At their parting Stefania loses
one of her slippers, but she holds on to the remaining one as a
link to her parents and home.

The Silver Madonna - The Odyssey of Eugenia Wasilewska (Recommended
for the teenage reader) Wasilewska, Eugenia. John Day Co; [1st
American ed.] edition (1971)
ASIN: B0006CKGT2
Available at: www.amazon.com
The heroic story of a Polish girl who fell into the hands of the
Russians when Poland was divided by Hitler and Stalin in 1939. Exile
to Siberia, a disastrous marriage, escape across the Steppes, recapture,
and a final homecoming.

Recollections of a JourneyHutchinson, R.C. Allison and Busby,
1994.

The Hand of a StrangerLachocki, Gryzelda Niziol. Bloomington,
1st Books Library
ISBN 0-7596-0685-4
Available from the author: Gryzelda Niziol Lachocki, 2014 Pine Tree
Drive Edgewater, FL 32141, USA or
by e-mail: Ab4uz@aol.com
The purge of Eastern Europe's land owners by Stalin, sends millions
of Russians and Poles to the Russian labor camps. With a German
invasion, the situation changes. Liberated masses manage to leave
Russia, with General Anders' Army, only to face new problems. Unforeseen
circumstances force total strangers to rely on each other, lending
a helping hand to conquer life's adversity.

When Eagles Die Ambrose, Robert. Authorhouse, 2004
ISBN 1418489875
Available at: www.authorhouse.com/Bookstore/
Author's website: www.RobertAmbros.com
This new historical novel spans three generations from the Eastern
Front in World War I through the Siberian gulags and the battlefields
of Second World War to the present; Coach Joe Bartkowski , the son
of an Anders' Army veteran, stuns the basketball world when he leads
a small college team to the national championships. Now sought after
by major universities, Joe finds his career threatened by unexplained
anxiety and panic attacks. Is it a midlife crisis as his therapist
claims, or does the answer lie in his family's history? When Eagles
Die embraces Joe's painful search for the truth, his unexpected
discoveries about himself, and the very nature of the human mind.

Worlds Apart Surviving identity and memory Pawlowicz, Henry. . Authorhouse, 2004
ISBN 978-1-84728-226-2
Available at: http://foxley.org/
Worlds Apart is a novel about survival and a search for identity
through memory. It looks at the choices forced on us and those we
avoid making. It begins and ends with a fairy story told to the
young David Wilenski by his mother in a refugee camp in England.
The adult David looks back at life in that camp, realising its taboos
hide a story and pose a question over identities and the past. The
protagonists are his parents: Jadwiga, transported to the Soviet
Gulag under Stalin, and Wladek, taken as a slave labourer to Hitler's
Reich. Dogged by guilt, through archives and accounts prised from
his reluctant parents, David reassembles the shattered smithereens
of their lives. A remarkable picture emerges of ordinary people
struggling through war, love, and growing up, one in the "Jerusalem
of the North" - riven by antagonistic nations - the other on an
idyllic rural stage that is a military colony. These are the borderlands
of 20th century Eastern Europe and a refugee camp in the borderlands
of the UK.

The Bronski House Marsden, Phillip, Arcade Publishing
(June 1997)
ISBN 155970392X
Available at: www.amazon.com/Bookstore/
If your ancestors come from Belorussia, especially around Nowogrodek,
you may find this "part novel, part reverie" interesting.
Daily Telegraph Book review had this to say: "An extraordinary,
multi-faceted narrative. From diaries and memories, it recreates
the true story of two Polish women -mother and daughter- amid the
destruction of a whole culture".

Polish countryside, photographs and narratives
New York, American Geographical Society, 1937Boyd, Louise. With contr.by Stanislaw
Gluchowski.
Description: Depicts the Kresy in the 1930's

Conversations with the KremlinKot, Stanislaw. London,
Oxford, 1963.
Translated from the Polish. LC Catalog #DK441 K683.
Availability: Out of Print
Description: The best inside view we have of what went on at the highest
levels as the Kresy Odyssey began its climax. A must read for full
comprehension of how difficult was the task of getting our parents
and families out. Review by Cass Glodek.

I Saw Poland Betrayed: An American Ambassador
Reports to the American People Lane, Arthur Bliss. Western Island Publishers,
1948.
Availability: website: www.alibris.com

Warsaw RebuiltCiborowski, Adolf and Jankowski, Stanislaw Polonia Publishing House, Warsaw 1963
It shows pictures side by side, the one on the left page is a view
of 1945
and on the right, right beside it, is one taken from the same spot
in 1962.

Warszawa
OdbudowanaCiborowski, Adolf and Jankowski, Stanislaw
An old ,1963 hard cover 150 page documentary of Warszaw. It shows
pictures of
Warszawa street juts after the war and after it was rebuilt by 1962.
And
awesome vivid short book that clearly shows the total ruins of this
fine
city and how it was rebuilt brick by brick.

Polish Self Defence in VolhyniaDziemianczuk, Wladyslaw
Availability: Limited, Out of Print
Account by a local Polish person fighting for his and his family's
life. It discusses the slaughter of Polish citizens by the OUN. The
books contains maps, pictures, details of the events and the village
of Kisielin.

Bloodlines: A Journey Into Eastern EuropeKostash, Myrna, Douglas &McIntyre,
1993
ASIN:1550541102
Availability: Out of Print
Writer, Feminist and child of the ’60s Myrna Kostash began her travels
through Central and Eastern Europe in 1982, just before massive and
seeping changes tore like a hurricane through that part of the world.
A Journey into Eastern Erurope chronicles her fascinating passage.
She explores how certain countries and people met and struggled with
vast change and how her experiences impacted her sense of self, both
as a Canadian of European descent, and as a citizen of the world.
This fascinating look at a writer exploring Europe on a very personal
basis is a valuable read for anyone interested in that part of the
world.Available at: www.bookfinder.comAvailable at: www.chapters.indigo.ca

Poland, 1946 Vachon, John, Smithsonian Institution Press,
December 1995
ISBN: 1560985402
An awesome hard cover 171 page book by an
American who in 1946 after WWII photographed and documented the devastation
left behind by the Third Reich and Stalin's Russians.

World War II Through Polish EyesSzonert, M.B.
ISBN :0-88033-502-5.
Ms. Szonert skillfully interweaves events from the present and the
past as experienced by Danuta a resident of Warsaw. All events and
facts described in the story are true. The book covers the years 1923
- 2002. A page-turner which gives a great view of what everyday life
was like.
Available at: www.amazon.com

Echa WolyniaHermaszewsk, Wladyslaw, Dom Wydawniczy Bellona,
Warszawa 1998
ISBN :83-11-08515-3.
Ms. Szonert skillfully interweaves events from the present and the
past as experienced by Danuta a resident of Warsaw. All events and
facts described in the story are true. The book covers the years 1923
- 2002. A page-turner which gives a great view of what everyday life
was like.
Available at: www.polonia.com/polishbooks/product.asp?sku=2583

Polish Self Defence in VolhyniaDziemianczuk, Wladyslaw
Availability: Limited, Out of Print
Account by a local Polish person fighting for his and his family's
life. It discusses the slaughter of Polish citizens by the OUN. The
books contains maps, pictures, details of the events and the village
of Kisielin.

The Deadly EmbraceRead, Anthony & Fisher, David. W.W.
Norton & Company, Inc. NY, NY and
W.W. Norton & Company Ltd, London
ISBN :0-393-02528-4
The soft cover book has 687 pages with 14 pages of source notes, 7
bibliography pages. It discusses Hitler, Stalin, Great Britain and
what was occurring just before and during the WWII. It shows how Poland
was used by all and what was really happening behind the scene just
before the outbreak of the war.
The book is not written about Poland but Poland is mentioned in many
places and a good amount of background is given to show how Poland
was sold out even before the war started by Great Britain, US and
the French. Anyone looking for background history of WWII will find
this book a good source of information.
Available at: www.amazon.com

The Holocaust IndustryFilkenstein, Norman
"When I read Finkelstein's book, The Holocaust Industry, at the
time of its appearance, I was in the middle of my own investigations
of these matters, and I came to the conclusion that he was on the
right track. I refer now to the part of the book that deals with the
claims against the Swiss banks, and the other claims pertaining to
forced labor. I would now say in retrospect that he was actually conservative,
moderate and that his conclusions are trustworthy. He is a well-trained
political scientist, has the ability to do the research, did it carefully,
and has come up with the right results. I am by no means the only
one who, in the coming months or years, will totally agree with Finkelstein's
breakthrough." Raul Hilberg
Available at: www.normanfinkelstein.com/default.htm

Kresowe Osadnictwo Wojskowe 1920 - 1945Stobiak-Smogrzewska, Janina, Instytut
Studiow Politycznych, 2003.
In 1918 Poland regained its sovereignty, lost at the end of 18th century
to three neighboring powers: Russia, Prussia and Austria, but two
years later, in I 920,the country had to fight again for its independence
with its eastern neighbor - communist Russia. The whole nation, united
in its desire to retain its freedom, resisted the Red Army which was
forced to retreat An armistice was signed at Riga on 12th October
1920, and cease-fire followed six days later. Poland's eastern border
was thus secure. On 17th December 1920 the Polish Diet (Sejm) passed
the law endowing some soldiers of merit with land in the country's
Eastern Marches, retained by Poland through their bravery. The settlement
of soldiers was thought to be the most effective way to increase Polish
population in those areas where the Ukrainians and Byelorussians represented
the overwhelming majority. They were expected to play an important
role in the economic and cultural life .of that part of the country
where the conditions were exceedingly backward. Large parts of the
land given to soldiers - in pre-1914 time - belonged to the tsar's
family, the Russian government and Russian landlords. This was supplemented
by land taken away from Polish landlords and gentry in the framework
of land reform.
Available through Veritas Foundation Publication Centre, 63 Jeddo
Road, London W12 9EE, UK.
email: veritas@polish.co.uk

Genocide & Rescue in Wolyn - Recollections
of the Ukrainian Nationalist Ethnic Cleansing Campaign Against the
Poles During World War II Piotrowski, Tadeusz , McFarland & Company
2000
ISBN0786407735
Hardcover, 319 pages
After the 1939 Soviet and 1941 Nazi invasions, the people of Southeast
Poland underwent a third and even more terrible ordeal when they were
subjected to mass genocide by the Ukrainian Nationalists. Tens of
thousands of Poles were tortured and murdered, not by foreign invaders,
but by their fellow citizens, who sometimes turned out ot be their
neighbors, relatives, and former friends. Other Ukrainians took terrible
risks to protect Poles from the slaughter, and often paid for their
compassion with their lives. The children who survived them vividly
remember these atrocities and now, many decades later, tell their
tragic tales. These accounts, never before published in English, describe
the brutal murders these children witnessed, their own miraculous
survival, and the heroic rescues that saved them. Demographic and
other statistical information on the area is provided. Also included
are appendices listing the Ukrainian victims and providing additional
stories from other provinces, as well as ample Ukrainian, Polish,
Soviet, German, and Jewish documentation and a comprehensive chronology.
An index and bibliography are also included.
Available at: www.amazon.com
Available at: www.polartcenter.com

Ziemia Wolkowyska, tom I i II Karpyza, Witold. Hippocrene Books; 2nd
Rev edition (July 2001)
ISBN 0781809010
The books give a great deal of fascinating historical data about the
town of Wolkowysk and surrounding towns and villages.
May be purchased directly from the author. Price - Zl 15 plus shipping
for each of the two volumes.
Address: Dom Pomocy Spolecznej Ul. Podmiejska-boczna, 10 66-400 Gorzów
Wielkopolski Polska-Poland

BITTER GLORY - POLAND & ITS FATE 1918-1939 Watt, Richard, M. Hippocrene Books; Reprint
edition (December 1998)
ISBN 0781806739
A 500 page account covering the above period. Pro-polish but very
balanced and makes clear that the Poland between the Wars was not
always an idylic place and often was a society troubled by unrest
and strife between the left and right poltical parties of the time.
Available at:www.amazon.com

The fate of Poles in the USSR 1939-1989Piesakowski, Tomasz.

Allied Wartime Diplomacy - A pattern in PolandRozek, Edward, J. John Wiley & Sons, Inc
offices in New York, 1958
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 57-13449
Edward J. Rozek escaped from Poland when the Russians and Nazis took
over the country in 1939. Jailed in Hungary, he again escaped to join
the Polish Armies. As an officer in the Polish Armored Division under
field General Marshall Montgomery and General Eisenhower he fought
from Normandy to Germany. Wounded four times he holds high decorations
for bravery. He is an American citizen. He earned a BA (magna cum
Laude and Phi Beta Kappa) in international relationships, and a MA
and Ph.D degrees in Political science at Harvard University after
the war. He assisted in teaching at Harvard for three years before
joining the University at Colorado.

Haller's Polish Army in FranceValasek, Paul. 2006
ISBN 0-977-9757-0-3
A history of the Polish Army in France, aka Haller's Army, aka the Blue Army, aka Armia Hallera, is compiled from regimental histories
memoirs, period reports, letters and documents. Starting with the origins of the Restoration of Poland movement and the major roles of the city
of Pittsburgh and the Polish Falcons, through the view of Ignacy Paderewski as he officially sat at the Paris peace talks;
this book explains the formation, development, and accomplishments of this fighting force of Polish volunteers from America.
They enlisted to travel to France for battle against the Imperial German and Austro-Hungarian armies on the western front, and
subsequently to fight against the wave of Communism and the Bolshevik menace in the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1920.
To order, email hallersarmy@aol.com Contact information: Dr. Paul S. Valasek, 2643 W. 51st Street, Chicago, IL 60632-1559